SAA 19 040. Captives from Til-Barsip (CTN 5 p. 180)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | ⸢a-na?⸣ [x] ⸢x x⸣ [x] ⸢MEŠ?⸣ [x] | (1) Re[garding the ......] among the lat[er] captives whom the king, my lord, gave m[e] from Til-Ba[rsip], I have said: "I do know th[at] there certainly are no [...] among them." |
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| o 7'7' | (7) Harammu, the chiliarch of Manṣuate has (now) come to me, (bringing) with him his five sons, [...]..., [and the res]t of [his] people. [The m]en ar[rived] on the 30t[h of ...]. | |
| o 8'8' | ||
| o 9'9' | ⸢i⸣-tal-ka 05 DUMU-MEŠ-šú [o] | |
| o 10'10' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú ⸢ša⸣ am-⸢x x⸣ | |
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| b.e. 11'b.e. 11' | ||
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| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | (r 2) I told to [thei]r compeers: "I will release and equip them," but their brothers did not consent, saying: "The men are criminals; they will get up and run a[way. They are] be[nt on] killing." | |
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| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | pa-ri-ṣu-te šu-nu [o] | |
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | a-na mi-ni LÚv.ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x] | (r 9) Why [should I ...] the men? |
| r 1010 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢x-šú⸣-nu ⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| rest broken away |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P393619/.